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As I continue to rebuild my interior I am assessing the options to replace the dash illumination fixtures. I have replaced a few of them in the past with some cheap snap in fixtures made my Dorman. They do not hold up well.
I have 3 options. I found an AC Delco fixture that takes the 2 pin snap in type bulb, the dorman fixture or the OEM fixture sold by Lectric Limited. Thoughts?
Dorman snap in socket. Is not spring loaded and the ones I have previously used are showing signs of warping Do this twist in to place or snap in? Takes different bulb type OEM style. Leaning this direction
Gotcha. In that case I'd use the plastic 2 lead option. I hated those little metal things because they fell out, fell in, or fell apart....not to mention the incidental ground lack of contact.
thanks. I believe I want to stick with a single wire light so I don’t have to mess with the separate ground wires. Thinking I’ll go with the OEM fixtures from Lectric Limited.
Who can provide info on LED bulbs that actually fit in the GM sockets properly, do not require a specific orientation to electrical ground, are reliable (without early failures), and can be dimmed properly with the stock headlamp switch rheostat? I don't need anyone just pointing me to products which they have not tried, themselves.
Who can provide info on LED bulbs that actually fit in the GM sockets properly, do not require a specific orientation to electrical ground, are reliable (without early failures), and can be dimmed properly with the stock headlamp switch rheostat? I don't need anyone just pointing me to products which they have not tried, themselves.
Thanks.
I would like to know this as well. I believe the incandescent bulb is type 194. There is a web site called super bright leds that I hear mentioned a lot.
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I've used superbriteLEDs before. I did have an issue with one bulb but the rest fit okay....dont recall what bulb, I think it was for a turn signal. Pay attention for the dimmable bulbs. I was looking at dimmable and got side tracked into another bulb that wasnt dimmable
I concur with the idea of converting to 2-wire sockets. I did this for all the small gauge cluster lamps. All you need to do is join all their grounds to a common ground wire, which I tapped into the upper dash support steel beam. Then upgraded all to LED bulbs. And my flickering problem is resolved!
The only downside, is that they are not fully dim-able with the dimmer switch. They pretty much go from off to on, but I don't find a need to dim them down for night driving at all anyway.
I concur with the idea of converting to 2-wire sockets. I did this for all the small gauge cluster lamps. All you need to do is join all their grounds to a common ground wire, which I tapped into the upper dash support steel beam. Then upgraded all to LED bulbs. And my flickering problem is resolved!
The only downside, is that they are not fully dim-able with the dimmer switch. They pretty much go from off to on, but I don't find a need to dim them down for night driving at all anyway.
I ordered the 2 wire Dorman fixture to test fit it my gauges. Looks like the guy who used these splices 3 grounds together to a single heavier gauge wire to connect to the ground screw on the frame. There are a total of 15 dash and center gauge cluster illumination fixtures so I will need to run 3 additional grounds to the frame.
If you're switching over to LEDs, the grounds can be a normal gauge wire, even if your ganging several together.
Since the LEDs draw significantly less current than the incandescents, the wires don't need to be up-gauged significantly, or sub-grouped like you mentioned.
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Dash illumination light fixtures?
